Maxwell Anderson
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Continuous IntegrationWhat is Appveyor?
AppVeyor aims to give powerful Continuous Integration and Deployment tools to every .NET developer without the hassle of setting up and maintaining their own build server.
Appveyor is a tool in the Continuous Integration category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Scriptless, repetitive, one-click deployment of build artifacts to multiple environmentsYAML configurationBacked by Windows Azure platformBuilt-in NuGet feeds with project artifactsBuild artifacts are stored in a highly-durable Geo-redundant cloud storage
Appveyor Pros & Cons
Pros of Appveyor
- ✓Github integration
- ✓Simple, reliable & powerful
- ✓Hosted
- ✓YML-based configuration
- ✓Nuget support
- ✓Windows support
- ✓Automatic deployment
- ✓Free for open source
- ✓Great product, responsive people, free for open-source
- ✓Easy handling of secret keys
Cons of Appveyor
- ✗Complex user interface
- ✗Poor documentation
Appveyor Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Appveyor?
Jenkins
In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.
Travis CI
Free for open source projects, our CI environment provides multiple runtimes (e.g. Node.js or PHP versions), data stores and so on. Because of this, hosting your project on travis-ci.com means you can effortlessly test your library or applications against multiple runtimes and data stores without even having all of them installed locally.
GitHub Actions
It makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD. Build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub. Make code reviews, branch management, and issue triaging work the way you want.
